Lead Contracts in Milton Keynes

Leader
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Leader daily rate in Milton Keynes is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 29 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 16 49 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.06% 6.52% 5.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.35% 7.01% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 27
10th Percentile £429 £405 £348
25th Percentile £449 £480 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.67% +36.25%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £588
90th Percentile £671 £675 £670
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +31.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 368 699 645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.08% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 570 505
10th Percentile £269 £310 £200
25th Percentile £406 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £570
90th Percentile £725 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 36
10th Percentile £15.85 £9.87 £10.56
25th Percentile £18.00 £10.42 £10.77
Median hourly rate £22.58 £11.58 £11.14
Median % change year-on-year +94.99% +4.00% -17.37%
75th Percentile £30.00 £12.50 £14.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £12.89 £23.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £23.75 £13.16 £12.05
% change year-on-year +80.47% +9.21% -13.77%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Milton Keynes

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (31.25%) Workflow
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 5 (31.25%) PMO
3 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Journey Map
3 5 (31.25%) Journey Map
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
3 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) SNA
4 4 (25.00%) Terraform
4 4 (25.00%) vRealize
4 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 3 (18.75%) YAML
5 3 (18.75%) Git

Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SNA
2 3 (18.75%) VSAN
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Health Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Journey Map
2 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
2 5 (31.25%) Journey Map
2 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) Workflow
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (6.25%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (6.25%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
1 4 (25.00%) vRealize
2 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Cadence
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds